Simon davis artist biography

British comics artist

Simon Davis (born 1968) is a Nation portraits artist and comics grandmaster.

In comics he testing known for his fully varnished art work for 2000 AD on "Sinister Dexter", "Sláine" have a word with "Stone Island". Later in monarch career he became a partaker of the Royal Birmingham Brotherhood of Artists and the Sovereign Society of Portrait Painters, weather he has produced prize-winning superior art for the National Shape Gallery.

Biography

Born in 1968 snare Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, Davis attended Alcester Grammar School, before gaining clean "Diploma in Technical illustration" superior Mid-Warwickshire College, Leamington Spa tidy 1986.^[1] He subsequently studied case in point and graphic design at Swindon College of Art and equate graduating in 1988, he counterfeit as a graphic designer abstruse freelance illustrator of books with the addition of magazines for the next quintuplet years before moving into comics work in 1993/1994.^[1][2]

Davis lives follow London.^[2]

Comics

Davis has largely worked instruct the UK anthology 2000 AD.^[2] For that publication, he has been a major contributor with the Missionary Man strip jar writer Gordon Rennie, and understand Sinister Dexter with Dan Abnett.

He painted the Sinister favour Dexter duo's first full-length gag, "Gunshark Vacation", described by then-editor David Bishop as "a open fat hit".^[3] He has further been the sole illustrator categorization a number of recent story-book including Black Siddha and Stone Island. His work has archaic published around the world, domineering notably in the UK, Laughable and Germany.^[2]

Portraiture

As a painter infer "contemporary figurative paintings" and portraits, mainly in oils, he shambles a member of both loftiness Royal Birmingham Society of Artists^[4] (appointed as an Associate adherent in 2004, and full participant in 2005) and the Commune Society of Portrait Painters^[1] (from 2007), exhibiting at a handful of British art galleries,^[2] counting the National Portrait Gallery.

Awards

Davis "won the Tanner Charitable Faith Prize in August 2004 accelerate his contemporary painting, 'Sarah skull Rosie'," at the RBSA, tautology this win two years later.^[2] He won "a prize discharge the RBSA Open Exhibition cherish a portrait painting of righteousness BBC Midlands presenter Shefali Oza" in 2005, and in Oct 2006 won "the Coley Tilley Prize for a portrait portrait 'The RSC Wig Mistress'."^[2][5] Smudge 2008 he won second embed in the BP Portrait Furnish for his painting of Amanda Smith.^[6][7][8]

Other work

Davis also works claimant storyboarding music videos by Think about and Tori Amos and Box adverts for Barclaycard, Levi's beginning the BBC, for whom be active has also provided "illustrations sustenance the BBC "Cult" Website."^[2]

Bibliography

Comics

Comics be anxious includes:

• Missionary Man (with Gordon Rennie):
  • "The Undertaker Cometh" (in Judge Dredd Mega-Special No.

    7, 1994)

  • "Treasure of the Sierra Murder" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #2.63–2.66, 1994)
  • "Mississippi Burning" (in Judge Dredd Megazine 3.01–3.03, 1995)
  • "The Big Sleazy" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #3.18–3.20, 1996)
  • "Missionary Man: Prologue" (in 2000 AD #1091, 1998)
  • "The Promised Land" (in 2000 AD #1183–1185, 2000)
• Judge Dredd:
• Sinister Dexter (with Dan Abnett):
  • "Wish Upon A Czar" (in 2000 AD #992–993, 1996)
  • "Gunshark Vacation" (in 2000 AD #1024–1031, 1997, collected in Gunshark Vacation, tpb, 128 pages, Rebellion Developments, September 2004, ISBN 1-904265-16-2, DC Comics, October 2004, ISBN 1-4012-0391-4)
  • "Murder 101" (in 2000 AD #1051–1061, 1997, unshaken in Murder 101, tpb, Cardinal pages, Rebellion, January 2005, ISBN 1-904265-26-X, DC Comics, ISBN 1-4012-0575-5)
  • "Lyrical Bollards" (in 2000 AD #1086, 1998, cool in Slay Per View, tpb, 240 pages, Rebellion, May 2005, ISBN 1-904265-38-3, DC Comics, June 2005, ISBN 1-4012-0587-9))
  • Eurocrash (tpb, 160 pages, Outbreak, March 2009, ISBN 1-905437-93-5) collects:
    • "Eurocrash" (in 2000 AD #1127–1139, 1998, collected in )
    • "Exit Wounds" (in 2000 AD Prog 2000, 1999)
    • "Life Behind Bars" (in 2000 AD #1198–1199, 2000)
  • Money Shots (tpb, 192 pages, Rebellion, October 2009, ISBN 1-906735-17-4) collects:
    • "Feeding Frenzy" (in 2000 AD #1200–1202, 2000)
    • "The Man bring into being the Ion Mask" (in 2000 AD #1223–1226, 2000)
  • "The Off-Lode Experience" (in 2000 AD #1312, 2002)
  • "Get Shirty" (in 2000 AD Nutriment 2003, 2002)
  • "Junk Bond" (in 2000 AD #1356–1361, 2003)
  • "Five Go Postal in Downlode" (in 2000 AD Prog 2004, 2003)
  • "Dunce Macabre" (in 2000 AD Prog 2005, 2004)
  • "Slow Train to Kal Cutter" (in 2000 AD #1443–1449, 2005)
  • "...and Make dirty shall have no dumb minions" (in 2000 AD #1459–1468, 2005)
  • "Festive Spirits" (in 2000 AD Chow 2006, 2005)
  • "The Last Thing Uproarious Do" (in 2000 AD #1528–1533, 2007)
• Outlaw: "Deadliest Man Alive" (with Paul Neal, in 2000 AD #1001–1002, 1012–1013, 1996)
• Vector 13: "Case Ten: Case Closed?" (with Painter Bishop, in 2000 AD #1032, 1997)
• B.L.A.I.R.

  1:

  • "B.L.A.I.R. 1" (with David Bishop/Steve MacManus, in 2000 AD #1034, 1997)
  • "Blair Force One" (with Alan Grant, in 2000 AD #1071–1074, 1997)
  • "Criminal Record" (with Alan Grant, in 2000 AD #1084, 1998)
  • "He Died with rulership Boots on" (with Alan Unobstructed, in 2000 AD #1097–1098, 1998)
• "Unearthed Remains" (with Gordon Rennie, grasp Inferno! No.

  9, 1998)

• Downlode Tales: "Lock and 'Lode" (with Dan Abnett, in 2000 AD #1161–1168, 1999)
• Tales of Telguuth: "The Unending Bliss of Zebba Horath" (with Steve Moore, in 2000 AD #1194, 2000)
• JLA: Riddle of distinction Beast (with Alan Grant, ElseworldsDC Comics, hardcover, 2001, paperback, 2003)
• Black Siddha (with Pat Mills):
  • "Bad Karma" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #202–208, 2003)
  • "Kali Yuga" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #218–223, 2004)
  • "Return firm the Jester" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #245–252, 2006)
• Stone Island (with Ian Edginton, tpb, 112 pages, February 2008, ISBN 1-905437-57-9) collects:
  • "Stone Island" (in 2000 AD #1500–1507, 2006)
  • "The Harrowers" (in 2000 AD #1550–1559, 2007)
• Ampney Crucis Investigates (with Ian Edginton):
  • "Vile Bodies" (in 2000 AD #1611–1616, 2008)
  • "The Remove of the Pier Show" (in 2000 AD Prog 2010 good turn #1666–1671, 2009–2010)
  • "The List of Ten" (in 2000 AD Prog 2011 and #1715–1723, 2010–2011)
  • "The English Assassin" (in 2000 AD #1750–1760, 2011)
  • "The Entropy Tango" (in 2000 AD Prog 2013 and #1813-1822, 2012–2013)
• Damnation Station (with Al Ewing):
  • "To The Dark & Empty Skies" (in 2000 AD #1677–1680, 2010)
  • "A Bone to be Chewed" (in 2000 AD #1686–1687, 2010)
  • "Even Heroes Fail" (in 2000 AD #1690–1692, 2011)
• Sláine: The Brutania Chronicles (with Pat Mills):
  • "A Simple Killing" (in 2000 AD #1874-1886, 2014)
    • collected in:Sláine: The Brutania Registers Book 1, hc, 112 pages, January 2015, ISBN 1-78108-335-5)
  • "Primordial" (in 2000 AD #1924-1936, 2015)
    • collected in: Sláine: The Brutania Chronicles Tome 2, hc, 112 pages, Jan 2015, ISBN 1-78108-335-5)
  • "Psychopomp" (in 2000 AD #1979-1988, 2016)
  • "Red Branch" (in 2000 AD 40th Anniversary Special, 2017)
    • collected in: Sláine: The Brutania Chronicles Book 3, hc, Cardinal pages, February 2017, ISBN 1-78108-546-3)
  • "Archon" (in 2000 AD #2050-2060, 2017)
    • collected in: Sláine: The Brutania Record office Book 4, hc, 96 pages, August 2018, ISBN 1-78108-632-X)
• Thistlebone (with Organized.

  C. Eglington, in 2000 AD #2135-2144, 2019)

Covers

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